baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2380830-A (GB)
Title: Automatic file sharing in a peer to peer network by use of constraints between file system domains
Inventor: HAMADI YOUSSEF
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2001-10-13
Abstract: The invention concerns the application of constraints to the file system domains of first and second computers in a peer to peer (P2P) network (e.g. based on Gnutella, Napster, etc.). The constraints are binary and examples are equality - files on one peer are mirrored to the other, difference - files on one peer are excluded from existing on the other, or, inclusion -files on one peer exist on the other. The constraints are satisfied by daemons running on the peers of the network. Also disclosed is the use of a constraint database on a first computer, the database storing data describing constraints between said first computer and other computers in the peer to peer network. Further disclosure concerns a constraint library from which constraints can be selected and network analysis in order to rectify conflicts between the constraints set by individual peers. The invention is stated to have particular application to automatic updating of files in a windowed environment using a Gnutella system.
Patent GB-2381245-A (GB)
Title: Canopy for an invalid carriage
Inventor: KENDALL PAUL
IPC: A61G5/10
Filed: 2001-10-27
Abstract: The canopy, for protecting an occupant and the carriage from mildly inclement weather, comprises a frame with telescopic sections 1 for length adjustment to suit different carriages. The frame has sections 2 utilising elastic cord for snap-fit assembly. Cross-members have clamps for affixing to the bumper bar and/or frame of the carriage. The frame supports a canvas cover having zips for enabling access and a windscreen, also with zips.
Patent GB-2380670-A (GB)
Title: Umbrella with attached retractable sheath
Inventor: MOYES NICHOLAS ADRIAN
IPC: A45B25/24
Filed: 2002-02-01
Abstract: A closed umbrella is protected by a moulded rigid plastics case having upper and lower parts 3,5 which seal at 16,24 when closed. From this position, press button 9 releases a spring 12 which urges upper part 3 along the telescopic shaft 21 to the position shown, where it is above the ribs of the canopy, before the shaft is extended. The lower part acts as the handle. An alternative embodiment (Figs 10-13) describes a manually slidable upper part having elongate fingers (73) which cooperate with a guide member (75) on the top of the shaft. The upper part may be rotatable and include inner ridges (95) which assist in coiling the umbrella canopy fabric as the sheath is closed.
Patent GB-2386536-A (GB)
Title: Mobile fish smoker
Inventor: WALKER SARAH KATHLEEN ELDER
IPC: A23B4/044
Filed: 2002-02-27
Abstract: A pre-fabricated mobile food processing unit is capable of being sited at the point of supply of raw foodstuffs is equipped with the necessary food processing apparatus. The unit includes two areas; one 4 for the handling of raw foodstuffs and the other 6 for the handling of processed foodstuffs. This ensures that the raw foodstuffs and the processed foodstuffs are not allowed to mix and helps ensure that the food processing is carried out in a predetermined manner. The unit is used for brining 30 and smoking 32 of fish at fish farms, so that the fish may be smoked whilst still relatively fresh.
Patent GB-2370538-A (GB)
Title: A seat belt system with retraction speed control
Inventor: MIDORIKAWA YUKINORI
IPC: B60R21/26
Filed: 1998-12-16
Abstract: A seat belt retractor has an electric motor 10 with driving means to retract and protract the seat belt, control means to control the driving means, door opening/closing detecting means 42, and wherein when the opening of a door is detected the retraction of the seat belt is carried out at a higher speed than when closing of the door is detected. Vehicle reverse detecting means may be provided to inhibit retraction of the seat belt when reverse gear is engaged.
Patent GB-2383465-A (GB)
Title: Lithium metal dispersion in secondary battery anodes
Inventor: GAO YUAN
IPC: H01M4/58
Filed: 2002-04-25
Abstract: The present invention is a secondary battery having a high specific capacity and good cycleability, and that can be used safely. The secondary battery is manufactured to include an anode formed from a host material capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium in an electrochemical system such as a carbonaceous material, and lithium metal dispersed in the host material. The freshly prepared anodes of the invention are combined with a positive electrode including an active material, a separator that a separates the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte in communication with the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The present invention also includes a method of preparing a freshly prepared anode and a method of operating a secondary battery including the anode of the invention.
Patent GB-2378802-A (GB)
Title: Back light for liquid crystal display
Inventor: LIM MOO JONG
IPC: G02F1/13357
Filed: 2002-06-24
Abstract: A back light includes a first case (20) having a plurality of first and second support members (20a) and (20b), the first support member (20a) at ends of the case (20) and the second support member (20b) at a centre portion of the case and a plurality of luminescent lamps (10) having tubes (10a) supported by the first and second support members (20a and 20b), having electrodes (10b) and (10c) at both ends of the tubes (10a). The luminescent lamps (10) are arranged alternately at left and right sides of the second support member (20b). A method of constructing such a back light is also disclosed. Applications include use in display screens, televisions and computers. The device provides uniform luminescence to flat liquid crystal display screens, and uses a low voltage, reducing ozone generation.
Patent GB-2383586-A (GB)
Title: Jet-fuel blend comprising paraffin and petroleum distillate fuels
Inventor: HEMIGHAUS GREGORY
IPC: C10G2/00
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: A distillate fuel blend useful as a fuel or as a blending component of a fuel that is suitable for use in turbine engine, said fuel blend prepared from at least one highly paraffinic distillate fuel component having low to moderate branching and at least one conventional petroleum-derived distillate fuel component and a process for preparing same involving the blending of at least two components having antagonistic properties with respect to one another. The fuel blend produced has a breakpoint of at least 260{C, as measured by ASTM D3241.
Patent GB-2381828-A (GB)
Title: Connector for tubular members
Inventor: MCHUGH JOHN
IPC: E06B3/667
Filed: 2002-11-07
Abstract: A connector for joining tubular members, for example window frame members, comprises a pair of arms 22 extending along a common axis in substantially opposite directions from a central hub 24 each for insertion into the open end of a respective first tubular member 18a, and a channel in the hub extending substantially at right angles to the arms for accommodating a second tubular member 18b passing fully through the hub. The connector comprises two parts 20a, 20b disposed in face-to-face registration on substantially opposite sides respectively of a plane containing the axis of the channel and the axis of the arms.
Patent GB-2388561-A (GB)
Title: Detachable outflow grill for cyclone
Inventor: OH JANG-KEUN
IPC: A47L9/16
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: A cyclone-type dust-collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner comprises a cyclone body 20, dust-collecting receptacle 30, and a grill assembly 400. The cyclone body comprises an air inflow port 25 and an air outflow port (27, fig 9) and in operation an air vortex of dust-laden air is formed in the body. The dust-collecting receptacle is removably connected to the cyclone body for separating dust and dirt from the dust-laden air by the air vortex.. The grill assembly includes a first grill member 410, a second grill member 420, and a connection member 430. The grill assembly is disposed at the air outflow port of the cyclone body and prevents the reverse flow of the dust and dirt into the air outflow port of the cyclone body. The first grill member has a supporter 411 that is supported on the air outflow port of the cyclone body; a second grill member has a grill portion comprising a plurality of fine passage holes, through which the air flows to the air outflow port. These members are designed such that the first and second grill members are easily separable and connectable by a connection member, thereby to allow a user to easily remove the dirt collected in the grill portion of the second grill member by simply separating the second grill member from the connection member and washing the second grill member with water. The second grill member may also be fitted with a backflow prevention plate (443, fig 8) at its lower end.
Patent GB-2384000-A (GB)
Title: Pyrazolone lanthanide complexes
Inventor: PILLOW JONATHAN NIGEL GERARD
IPC: H05B33/14
Filed: 2001-09-07
Abstract: Photoluminescent compounds are described having no-ligand. These have formula (I) in which Ln represents a lanthanide ion, each of X, Y, and Z, which may be the same or different, represents hydrogne, an optionally substituted aromatic group or an optionally substituted aliphatic or cycloaliphatic group, such that at least one of X, Y and Z represents a said aromatic group which is conjugated with the pyrazolone ring system and such that when X or Y represents a said group, said group can optionally be attached via a hetero atom. These compounds possess useful electroluminescent properties such that they can be used in electroluminescent devices.
Patent GB-2386023-A (GB)
Title: Recording of moving images
Inventor: NISTER DAVID
IPC: H04N7/14
Filed: 2001-10-11
Abstract: The present invention relates to the recording of moving images by means of a portable communication device, such as a videophone. The communication device includes a main device (101), comprising a video camera (105). Furthermore, an accessory device (102), such as a headset, is also associated with the main device (101) and co-located with a relevant object (103). The video camera (105) records an original image of the relevant object (103). At least one tracking point (107a) is located on the accessory device (102) and at least one automatic tracking sensor (108a-108c) responsive to the at least one tracking point is located on the main device (101).The main device (101) further comprises a tracking data generator, which receives signals from the automatic tracking sensor(s) (108a-108c) and generates in response thereto tracking data representing a target direction (104) between the main device (101) and the accessory device (102). An image controller in the main device (101) creates a stabilized image of the relevant object (103) based on the target direction (104) and an original image recorded by the video camera (105).
Patent GB-2386629-A (GB)
Title: Coring apparatus with core breaking wedge
Inventor: CONTRERAS GARY
IPC: E21B49/06
Filed: 2002-03-20
Abstract: A side wall coring apparatus (50) has a core receiving chamber which includes an actuatable wedge (55) for detaching the core (48) from the surrounding material (46). The bit used to cut the core may be extendable and the wedge (55) may hold the core sample (48) in the bit during retraction of the bit. The wedge (55) maybe actuated in a number of ways including both linear and rotational actuation.
Patent GB-2388443-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced engine control based on exhaust temperature
Inventor: RITTER CURTUS P
IPC: F01N3/02
Filed: 2001-11-14
Abstract: A method is provided for controlling an engine (12) of a system (10) having an exhaust system (18) connected to the engine, and the exhaust system includes an exhaust gas cooler (19). The method includes sensing exhaust system temperature downstream of the exhaust gas cooler; comparing the exhaust system temperature to a temperature threshold that is less than 200 degrees Celsius; and adjusting an engine control parameter when the exhaust system temperature exceeds the temperature threshold. A system for controlling engine operation is also provided.
Patent GB-2391700-A (GB)
Title: Ion mobility spectrometer with GC column and internal regulated gas cycle
Inventor: LEONHARDT JURGEN
IPC: G01N30/72
Filed: 2003-06-24
Abstract: The invention relates to an ion mobility spectrometer with GC column and an internal regulated cycle system that can be used in trace gas analysis. The gas cycle enables the parameters of the carrier gas velocity in the GC column, the flow rate of the analysis gas q1(2) and the flow rate of the drift gas q1(1) to be varied largely independently and free of reaction. For this purpose, additional pumps (6,11) and gas splitters (4,14A) are arranged within the cycle system.
Patent GB-2394987-A (GB)
Title: Gravity-operated hinge for folding legs of bed
Inventor: GALVAN G
IPC: F16B12/54
Filed: 2003-07-22
Abstract: A hinge comprises a hinge-pin 40 located in a slot of a plate and though an end 30 of a leg 60 of a bed. When the pin 40 is located at the top of the slot and the end 30 is orientated for use (figure 10), flanges of the plate prevent the leg from rotating. The pin is maintained at the top of the slot by the weight of the bed. To rotate the end and thereby fold the leg, the pin is first moved to the lower end of the slot so that the end 30 of the leg is clear of the flanges. The leg may have two ends attached by hinges respectively on opposite sides of the bed.
Patent GB-2394353-A (GB)
Title: Flexible sheet with electroluminescent region
Inventor: NELSON VERONICA A
IPC: H05B33/12
Filed: 2003-09-23
Abstract: A flexible sheet 10 including a substrate 12 having at least one visually discernable surface 14 and at least one electroluminescent lamp assembly 16 controlled by a suitable power source as well as a protection layer 32 for isolating the electroluminescent lamp assembly from deleterious interaction with environment external to the flexible sheet. The sheet may also take the form of a safety device in the form of an elongated planar strip. Further embodiments include the flexible sheet taking the form of a greetings card, a book, or a map. The flexible sheet may also carry a mechanism for interactively illuminating selected regions in a predetermined manner.
Patent GB-2406806-A (GB)
Title: Coating and slicing of food product
Inventor: KING PETER
IPC: A23L13/40
Filed: 2003-10-10
Abstract: A method and apparatus for flavouring slices of a food product 20, the method comprising spraying a flavouring 16 onto an end face of an elongate product during slicing at the end face. The food product 20 may be a processed meat and the flavouring 16 supplied as a liquid or a slurry. The flavouring may be applied electrostatically via a misting nozzle 34.
Patent GB-2421972-A (GB)
Title: Manhole including a safety staging
Inventor: LUNT JOHN
IPC: E02D29/12
Filed: 2003-12-09
Abstract: The manhole comprises a manhole chamber defined at least in part by peripheral walling and having at its lower end base walling which accommodating flow channelling 25, at least a part of which is open into the chamber, with a landing area being provided by staging separate from and spaced above the base walling. The staging preferably comprises a grid like structure and occupies at least a portion of the base area of the manhole or may occupy the whole of the horizontal cross-sectional area of the manhole. The staging may be movably located and may comprise a combination of fixed and movable gratings 28a,28b. The gratings may be mounted on hinges so they can be moved between a lowered support position and a raised position which affords access underneath the grating. The staging may be supported from the base walling and/or the peripheral walling and may comprise a number of gratings.
Patent GB-2397095-A (GB)
Title: Retracting striker for a door of an electric household machine
Inventor: PROMUTICO FABRIZIO
IPC: D06F39/14
Filed: 2003-12-11
Abstract: The striker (10) is intended to be fixed to a door (3) and comprises a support structure (11; 12, 14) to which a striker member (19) for co-operating with fastening members (4, 5) of a stationary part of an electric household appliance (WM) is connected. The striker (10) further comprises a kinematic transmission mechanism (17) mounted in the support structure (11) and having two opposed arms (17a, 17b) having respective predetermined lengths; the striker member (19) is associated with a first arm (17a) and is mounted so as to be movable in the support structure (11) between a retracted position and a projecting position; a push-button member (22) is associated with a second arm (17b) and is movable in the support structure (11) between a rest position and a working position in which it projects from the support structure (11) to a greater extent and to a lesser extent, respectively. A movement of the push-button member (22) from the rest position to the working position can bring about, by means of the kinematic transmission mechanism (17), the movement of the striker member (19) from the retracted position to the projecting position.
Patent GB-2392536-A (GB)
Title: Fault tolerant processing
Inventor: BISSETT THOMAS D
IPC: G06F15/16
Filed: 2002-06-25
Abstract: Operation of tow asynchronous processors (410A, 410B) are synchronised with an I/O device by receiving, at a first processor having a first clocking system (475A), data from an I/O device. The data is received at a first time associated with the first clocking system and is forwarded from the first processor to a second processor having a second clocking system (475B) that is not synchronised with the first clocking system. The data is processed at the first processor at a second time conesponding to the first time in the first clocking system plus a time offset, and at the second processor at a third time contesponding to the first time in the second clocking system plus the time offset.
Patent GB-2398021-A (GB)
Title: Golf club with hosel cavity weight
Inventor: SOLHEIM JOHN A
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 2004-02-02
Abstract: A metal wood-type golf club has a hollow body with a hosel bore disposed in the heel end. A hosel bore weight 32, selected from a plurality of hosel bore weights of different mass, is inserted into the bottom end of the hosel bore 36. Thereafter, the tip of a golf club shaft 16 is inserted into the hosel bore and secured to the head to finish the club. The hosel bore weights preferably comprise weights of substantially identical size and shape adapted to conform to the interior surface of the bottom end of the hosel bore with the mass of the hosel bore weights being adjusted by varying their density. The weights may comprise of metal powder and polymer.
Patent GB-2399739-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust airflow system for a surface cleaner
Inventor: ABDALLAH SLEIMAN A
IPC: A47L5/14
Filed: 2004-03-02
Abstract: A surface cleaning machine in which a cleaning solution is dispensed to a surface and subsequently extracted comprises an airflow source, a base assembly 24 for movement along a surface, said base assembly having a bottom portion 40 with an outlet 74 extending substantially along the entire width thereof, said outlet being associated with said source, a duct cover 76 covering said outlet, said duct cover including at least one opening sized and oriented to distribute the air evenly across said outlet. The opening may decrease in size from an upstream to a downstream direction of air flowing across the outlet. The opening may comprise a series of openings decreasing in size from the upstream to the downstream direction of air flowing across the outlet.
Patent GB-2413150-A (GB)
Title: Security locker for an open drink
Inventor: HAYES JAMES PATRICK
IPC: G07F7/06
Filed: 2004-04-13
Abstract: A security locker 10 holds an open drink 14 so that it cannot readily be tampered with, and is such that an inebriated person can (1) readily open the locker door 12 by a single action, e.g by the insertion of a credit card 16 or other flat or card-like key 16, (2) can readily insert and/or remove the drink 14 due to the locker shape, e.g to guide a hand reaching into the locker 10 to facilitate retrieving the drink 14 and make spillage less likely, and (3) is less likely to be wounded stumbling against the locker 10, e.g. since said door 12 is adapted not to open outwards but to move around the inside of the locker periphery, rotating about a pivot, and the locker 10 has a suitable external shape, convex facing the front. After inserting said drink 14, closing and relocking the door 12, the key 16 is retained and a token 20 issued, required to be re-inserted to remove said drink 14. A plurality of such lockers 10 can be fastened together in a bank, secured, e.g. below, table 64 or ledge 70, and readily removable from the bank 76 without releasing other lockers. The locker 10 or bank 76 is located within a building 68, within 2 m of a toilet entrance 78, within 5 m of a dance floor 80.
Patent GB-2425144-A (GB)
Title: Security door with pivoting member mounted adjacent edge of door and projecting over door frame
Inventor: WARRINER MICHAEL GREGORY
IPC: E05B17/20
Filed: 2004-05-25
Abstract: A security door 11 is mounted for hinged movement 12 on a frame F1 and includes a wrap around member 18 which is pivotally mounted 19 adjacent an edge 22 of the door 11. In use the wrap around member 18 projects over a portion of the frame F2 to prevent the door from being pulled open when in the locked position. In a preferred embodiment the wrap around member 18 is in addition to one or more rectilinearly sliding locking bolts (16, figure 2), wherein both locking elements are controlled simultaneously by sliding bar 17 connected to wrap around member 18 by pivoted link 23.
Patent GB-2417928-A (GB)
Title: A movable storage device for supporting sheet like elements
Inventor: HARROLD MARTIN STEPHEN
IPC: B62B3/00
Filed: 2004-08-28
Abstract: A storage device 10 for storing/carrying plate like elements, specifically mountboards for picture framing, where the plates are supported in at least one U-shaped channel 14 at the base of the device (see also figure 9). A frame 18,20,24 extends upwards from the U-shaped channel so as to support the plates in a substantially upright manner, and a pair of wheels 16 are provided so that the device may be moved in the manner of a trolley. The wheels are located to one side of the device so that the U- shaped channel is as close to the ground as possible, allowing the device, when not being moved, to rest slightly tilted to one side without tipping over. The device is for use beneath a work bench (252, figure 12), where the underside of the bench may be provided with guide elements (256) defining the movement of the trolley when it is withdrawn from beneath the bench.
Patent GB-2403997-A (GB)
Title: Reciprocable piston with a fluid scavenging system and method of scavenging a fluid
Inventor: URSAN MIHAI
IPC: F04B9/103
Filed: 2003-03-26
Abstract: A reciprocable piston comprises a cylindrical body reciprocable within a hollow cylinder and at least two spaced ring seals disposed around the circumference of the cylindrical body. Within the cylindrical body there is a scavenging system that comprises: an internal chamber that is in fluid communication with a space between the spaced ring seals; and a one-way fluid passage that allows one-way fluid flow from the internal chamber to the cylinder chamber when fluid pressure within the internal chamber is greater than fluid pressure within the cylinder chamber. A method of scavenging fluid comprises collecting fluid that leaks by a piston seal and returning the collected fluid to the cylinder chamber from which it originated, through a scavenging system disposed within the piston.